Dancing Europe: Identities, Languages, Institutions

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This multifaceted book investigates the place of dance and performance in the development, confirmation and subversion of conceptions of Europe from the 20th century up until today. Its contributions unravel the nexus between Europe and dance from historical and contemporaneous perspectives, and testify to an understanding of Europe based on different constructions of (alternative) societies.

Through the threefold themes of identities, languages and institutions, this volume reveals the complexity of this topic. It investigates the construction of European identities in and through performance and their intersection with local or global cultures; explores versatile models of European multilingualism and linguistic diversity on stage; and considers the constructions of Europe, in dance, as conditioned by institutional and socio-political frameworks.

The first volume of its kind, it offers a collection of previously unpublished chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars. It will make essential reading for anyone interested in the fields of dance, performance and European Studies, and serve as an important springboard for future research in this area.

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4.7
13 reviews
Gwendolin
3 September 2022
This book opens up a completely new approach to historical and contemporary questions and links the big questions of identity, language and institutions in a precise and clever way. An important contribution not only for dance and theater studies, but also and especially for a cross-border and multi-perspective view of our present.
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Chris
31 August 2022
Brilliant and urgent book that shows relations between political events and art/dance production
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